Plusnet Discussion Thread

Had fibre installed on Wednesday. I did a line test via BT on Thursday morning I had max achievable 36+Mbps download, which is what I was predicted.

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I did a new line test today (Friday) at 7AM and the above is what I got.

Does this look correct?

Seems a bit low, considering my estimated and first speed test.

Now as of Friday it's 33Mbps and seems to be falling.

Is the upload speed correct? Can it go higher?

On here: https://portal.plus.net/m...ction=data_transfer_speed

It says:

Estimated line speed:
36Mb (Accurate to within +/- 1Mbit) - Checked on 2013-02-23 15:16:19
Current line speed:
37 Mb
 
My fibre order on my new house got cancelled as the vendors put a cease on the line. I have had the phone connected but the earliest date I can get for the fibre to be installed is the 4th April! :(

3 weeks of stupid expensive BT openzone. It is costing me £15 every 5 days!

Better be worth it.
 
Currently in the process of moving to Plusnet from O2, seeing as my fibre box is being installed and should be ready by end of May.

Does anyone know if either of the Plusnet-supplied routers (ADSL or normal) support any kind of QoS? I know the O2 Wireless Box V doesn't, my D-Link does but it's an ADSL modem/router and will be useless (as a router) once I move to FTTC.

Many thanks. :)
 
AzZ said:
Been with BE for around 6 years but I want to move now, mainly because I want fibre and the fact that they have been sold to Sky has just reinforced my decision. Plusnet have a nice 6 months half price deal at the moment that I would like to take advantage of.

The only problem is BE say I have a contract until October so if I want to cancel I have to pay off the remaining fee. Any way around this? I think they renewed the contract when they gave half price broadband for the year.

How's Plusnet anyway? Nice stable/fast connection?
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I fail to see how you are tied into a contract with BE after 6 years unless you have made a change to your package in the last 12 months. If that is the case, you didn't mention it and I am not sure there is anything you can do.

Speeds seem good; although Speedtest sometimes returns results suggesting I am on around 40-50mbit, I get sustained download rates of 9.8MBps which is pretty much maxed out.
 
-BA- said:
I fail to see how you are tied into a contract with BE after 6 years unless you have made a change to your package in the last 12 months. If that is the case, you didn't mention it and I am not sure there is anything you can do.

Speeds seem good; although Speedtest sometimes returns results suggesting I am on around 40-50mbit, I get sustained download rates of 9.8MBps which is pretty much maxed out.
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Not made any changes to the package, but perhaps the contract renewed when they gave me the half price for the year deal in October. I will phone them again and clarify this.
 
I took out a half price deal with BE in October of last year and they have told me (Got my MAC code now by email) that I will have to pay £36.60 if I was to cancel now and move ISP's.

Is there any real advantage in moving over to a "full" PlusNet package (phone and broadband) over that of just a FTTC connection...? I am a little reluctant to move from BT for my phone as it simply works and has done so without issue.

As a soon to be a BE refugee I am looking at either a BT Infinity II (expensive) or a PlusNet package. I am estimated to get around a 59mb/s speed.

BT are having a Sainsbury's £100 gift card offer at the moment, six days left, but PlusNet seem to be the cheaper option but I'm not sure what their support etc is like...?
 
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Woohoo my Plusnet TopCashback tracked at £80.80 after I had missed the deal by a few days. It went payable today. Result :)
 
OK, I am very very titchy when it comes to ISP's I must ensure they are not going to screw me over with changing FUP's and caps, prices etc.

What are they like historically? can anyone see them being like BT?

I am in two minds at the moment, I am with Be at the moment but obviously want to switch because of the whole Sky takeover, however I have the option of going on a work connection (I work for an ISP) and get fibre through BTW network and I will be in control being a network engineer, or do I keep my IP/bandwidth usage away from work and have it on plusnet?

Edit: seems there is £50 activation with plusnet, do you get a static IP?
 
Leaning towards plusnet at the moment but not 100% sure.

I'm really worried about any potential caps, throttling etc, l need to be sure that's the plan they have in place, if there are changes does this reserve my rights to cancel or give notice?

Do they offer profile changes and tweaking of connection ? They are not anal like sky about giving out RADIUS creds so we can configure routers :)
 
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DJMK4 said:
Leaning towards plusnet at the moment but not 100% sure.

I'm really worried about any potential caps, throttling etc, l need to be sure that's the plan they have in place, if there are changes does this reserve my rights to cancel or give notice?

Do they offer profile changes and tweaking of connection ? They are not anal like sky about giving out RADIUS creds so we can configure routers :)
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Plusnet forum is very good of dealing with ip profile to match BT Wholesale ip profile with a manual request but it normally updated itself automatically. U can tweak SNR but it more risky as DLM might think it a faulty on your line if you kept changing SNR more often. It happen to me as I learn my mistake! There are no caps, throttling. I doubt that Plusnet will be changing their Unlimited to capping in near future. And I had no problem with Plusnet lately. ;)
 
bulldog147 said:
That's pretty very good. You are much closer to the FTTC green box.
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About 160m :) Mind you before FTTC as we are about 4km from the exchange the best I could get was about 2Mbs. Virgin was the only option for decent speed.

So just installed Freesat and cancelled Virgin saves me £40 per month :D
 
Mike306 said:
Activation is free when taken with Home Phone (line rental).

As already answered, single static IP is £5
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Unfortunately I dont have control over the PSTN line, and person who owns it doesnt want to move away from Tesco for their calls.

I may just take the plunge and go for a connection from work, can place the order on a 80/20 based circuit on our BTWholesale network, unlimited and throttled, and they have said I can have it on a rolling month by month contract with a 30day cancellation if I want to move.
 
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